Robert Duvall
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Language
Français
Description
Une histoire politique qui se lit d'un trait,
et qui pourrait bien être vraie.
Voilà six ans que Denis Moreau occupe la fonction de maire de Granby. On peut dire que sous son règne, la dette et les taxes ont baissé de façon substantielle, ce qui le rend très populaire au sein de la population et du conseil municipal, qu'il contrle complètement. Il prétend être le défenseur du petit contribuable, mais est-ce vraiment le cas?
Maxime Lalonde,...
Author
Language
Français
Description
-Papa, je veux aller à la taverne!
Connaissez-vous beaucoup d'enfants de six ou sept ans qui interpellent leur père tous les dimanches de cette façon? Toute mon enfance, j'ai été fasciné par ce lieu mystérieux. Plus tard, au début de ma vie adulte, j'ai connu les différents acteurs qui fréquentaient ces lieux: les travailleurs, les récipiendaires d'aide sociale, les ivrognes, les artisans, les artistes et les nombreux immigrants. Suivez-moi...
4) Wild Horses
Author
Language
English
Description
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing person's case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
7) Open range
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen; 2-disc collector's edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
8) True Grit
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Language
English
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In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
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Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Language
English
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Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
12) We own the night
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a legendary Deputy Chief. Bobby's strained relationship with his...
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating to others.
15) The Godfather
Series
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
16) Lonesome Dove
Series
Language
English
Description
The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
17) Crazy heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
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The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
18) Days of thunder
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Language
English
Description
Race car driver Cole Trickle teams with a legendary crew chief to race at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends his career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor to regain his nerve to race, to win and to live.
20) Network
Language
English
Description
A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."